Re: [Chromium-users] Chromium and VNC: remote rendering of desktop

[Dan B. P. <ph...@cs...>]

Brian Paul wrote:
> Dan Phung wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to get the setup where the local (app) node sends its
>> rendering data to a remote node to get rendered, and then sent back to
>> get displayed.  From what I've read, I should use the VNC SPU.
>
> Do you want to use VNC?
>
> Or, are you trying to render back into the original application window?
I guess I don't really want to use VNC, but that's what I read as one 
way of going about this...
but yes, I'm trying to render back to the original application window.

>
>
>> However most of the docs I find are related to vncproxy, which (from
>> what I understand) is only needed if I'm using DMX.
>>
>> Here's the setup I tried (mothership and app node are the same):
>>
>> app node: start mothership
>>   python vncdemo.conf Xvnc
>> rendering node: start crserver
>> app node: crappfaker
>>
>> Here's what I think it should look like...
>>
>> crappfaker --(net)--> crserver-> vncspu  <--- vncviwer
>>
>> Should I be connecting the vncviewer to the vncspu?  I tried that, but
>> the viewer doesn't show anything...I can connect directly to Xvnc and
>> see my server though...
>
> The VNC SPU is derived from the passthrough SPU so it needs to be 
> followed by another SPU, typically the render SPU.  I'll update the 
> docs about that.
>
>
>> Is there any documentation on how to get this setup?  What happens
>> if the crserver gets disconnected and then later reconnected?
>
> You can't dynamically disconnect/reconnect crservers like that.
>
> -Brian